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On this Friday's episode, the guest is Minnnesota radio personality Paul Charchian and we’ll be reviewing For Their Love by Other Lives and Yo La Tengo's I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. You’re welcome to listen to the albums ahead of time!

On every episode of MinnTrax, we want to involve the Patreon community as much as possible. So please leave a question or discussion topic below and we’ll read some of our favorites on the episode! Also, please leave a link to your current favorite song or a song you think is worth dissecting and we’ll include it in the community playlist on Spotify.

MinnTrax Community Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3aRRgox

We’ll be pulling questions on Wednesday afternoon. Thanks everybody! And just a reminder: MinnTrax won’t be on YouTube or in the Patreon exclusive feed, it’s a stand alone podcast feed that you’ll need to subscribe to.

MinnTrax is our new music podcast hosted by Matt Helgeson and produced by Jason Dafnis where a guest has Helgeson review one of their favorite albums and vice versa. You can subscribe to MinnTrax on your favorite podcast app, new episodes are released every other Friday.

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Comments

Anonymous

Do you have any music that feel comfortable to you culturally? Like a style you relate to your family or the community you grew up in. For me I have a soft spot for hymnal type music that I associate with the church services of my youth. Song: Leaving Eden by Carolina Chocolate Drops

Anonymous

Hey guys! Thought you should know about RacerTrash. A few months ago a collective of the best editors in LA (who are now called RacerTrash) remixed the Wachowski's Speed Racer film into "Speed Vapor" in 24 hours. It blew up on Twitch and twitter a bit, and have moved onto remixing Michael Mann's HEAT, Independence Day, and Super Mario Bros. We even had guest editors like Freddie Wong and a few others. The movies are divided into 10 minute chunks that the editors try to cut down to about 3 minutes each, and it turns into a crazy psychedelic music experience that some of you might enjoy. We have been contacted by Alamo Drafthouse to remix something for them, so keep an eye out for us at Fantastic Fest. To follow us for future screenings, go to twitch and search "racerxtrash". https://www.twitch.tv/racerxtrash Here are some clips: "Speed Vapor" Sample: https://youtu.be/iQ_dOfB21uU Vapor Mario Bros. teaser: https://youtu.be/B4z-cDHpJdM?t=17 Thank you, Stock Bros.

Anonymous

What is your favorite song by a fictional band/artist? Mine is "That thing you do" from the movie

Zane Dukes

How big of a dork am I for having U2 as my favorite band?

Anonymous

Is it still possible to dream of a New Wave revival? Been listening to a lot of Prefab Sprout lately. https://open.spotify.com/track/77cfjfsqAgEEadv70zcZgK?si=GGp3LQ1KSBuD_nnd7W7xZQ

Nubbyy

Hey MinnTrax, Do you have a favorite concert film? My personal favorites are Pink Floyd in Pompeii, and Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense. Cheers!

Mike Lynch

Hey y'all. In that new announcement for the Suicide Squad game, do you think there's any chance that isn't Superman? His face looks unnaturally veiny. Maybe it's actually Bizarro? Thanks crew, love the show!

Anonymous

First of all - awesome that Charch is on the show. Second, you couldn't have picked a better Yo La Tengo album. This might be one of the greatest albums ever recorded, and it will always remind me of fall. Beyond the obvious track title "Autumn Sweater", the entire album has an eerie yet simultaneously comforting vibe that just seems to match the fall season so well. As a general Yo La Tengo question, what are your thoughts about the band's 2010 Reinventing the Wheel tour where they used a wheel of fortune to determine which setlist they'd play on a given night? One of the selections was "Spinner's Choice" in which the audience member chose Sitcom Theatre, which resulted in the band returning with scripts and acting out the entire "Chinese Restaurant" episode of Seinfeld for 22 minutes.

Anonymous

Live at Pompeii is amazing. Queen Live at Wembley or SRV Live at El Mocambo

Anonymous

What MN artists would you recommend to non-Minnesotans? Bonus points if you go deeper than Prince, Hüsker Dü, and The Replacements.

Crayter

Hey Ben, just writing to say I hope your knee is doing better, have a good one!